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April is national grilled cheese month and grilled cheese sandwiches have been on my mind a lot so it is no surprise that when I was thinking about what to do with the roast lamb leftovers, a grilled cheese sandwich came to mind. Before I knew it I was thinking about a lamb gyrogrilled cheese sandwich filled with all of my favourite gyro fillings including tzatziki, feta, toamtoes and onions. With all of the ingredients pretty much decided the only real question was what cheese was I going to use and a Greek melty cheese like kasseri was definitely the way to go. I was a little concerned that with the tzatziki in the sandwich it might come out a little soggy so I used a nice thick Greek style yogurt, squeezed the excess liquid from the cucumber and used day old bread for the grilled cheese to make sure that everything turned out right and it did. These gyro grilled cheese sandwiches turned out pretty big with all of the fillings but they were oh so good! You can just imagine combining two already great things, gyros and grilled cheese sandwiches and you get something even better!

I served the gyro melts with some of the roast potatoes left over from the roast lamb dinner along with a salad.

Gyro Grilled Cheese Sandwich (aka Gyro Melt)

A massive grilled cheese sandwich with all of the flavours of a gyro including succulent slow roasted lamb, juicy tomatoes, sweet onion, garlicky tzatziki, salty feta, and plenty of melted cheese.

Directions

Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat.

Butter the outside of each slice of bread, sprinkle half of the cheeses on the inside of one slice of bread, top with the roast lamb, tomato, onion, tzatziki, the remaining cheese and finally the other slice of bread.

Add the sandwich to the pan and grill until golden brown and the cheese has melted, about 2-4 minutes per side.

grilled cheese is definitely as "bigger is better" type of situation and you stuffed these with all sorts of heaven. I tend to think all sandwiches are better with melted cheese, so gyros had it coming!

Im working my way through my reader and a minute ago, I would have said I was full. Uncomfortably so...

And then I opened this post and my stomach started growing. Lamb didn't get to a price that I was willing to dish out the cash for it in my area but I may have to bite the bullet, just for the leftovers now.

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.